Transforming the finance function
Supporting your projects within the finance function
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Our expert operational consultants will support you in your digital transformation and in optimizing your performance.
Our missions
- Support for transformation projects
- Improved performance management
- Process organization and improvement
- Setting up a finance function
- Compliance with ESG standards
Our employees come from leading audit and consulting firms, and work for major international groups. They receive regular training in the use of market solutions.
Our challenges
- An agile, scalable Finance IS that is consistent with business needs (reporting, forecasting, automation).
- Access reliable, up-to-date data that is consistent across entities and can be used for operational and strategic management.
- Set up an efficient organization, centralized or decentralized depending on the issues at stake, with harmonized processes and clear responsibilities.
- Guarantee the reliability of the accounts, the smooth operation of critical processes (accounting, treasury, consolidation) and risk management.
Our methodology
Optimizing and automating processes for sustainable performance
- Redesign key processes based on market standards.
- Guarantee end-to-end operational continuity.
- Secure activities by integrating risk management right from the process design stage.
- Facilitate adoption of new operating modes through structured change management support.
- Guarantee end-to-end operational continuity.
- Secure activities by integrating risk management right from the process design stage.
- Facilitate adoption of new operating modes through structured change management support.
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Strengthening data-driven management capabilities
- Position the finance function as a strategic partner to management by providing reliable and relevant analyses.
- Deploy a performance culture thanks to clear, shared indicators (KPIs, dashboards, margin analyses, etc.).
- Integrate forecasting tools to support financial decisions (business and cash flow forecasts, debt sizing).
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Leveraging data and technology to create value
- Structure data governance to ensure the reliability and use of available information.
- Automate high value-added processes and digitalize support functions.
- Choose technological solutions in line with the organization's priorities.
- Ensure the success of projects through controlled implementation and rigorous risk management.
Our services
Support for IS/finance transformation projects
Improved performance management
Process organization and improvement
Setting up a finance function
Compliance with ESG standards
Consolidation and IFRS expertise
Our support :
- Production of consolidated financial statements under IFRS
- Optimize closing times and improve consolidation processes
- Preparation of financial information
- Anticipating the accounting consequences of new transactions
- Accounting treatment of complex operations
- Defining and helping to change the format of group reporting
- Training on different accounting standards
Examples of assignments:
- Implementation of new financial reporting by country in compliance with IFRS 8 on operating segments for a major industrial group
- Replace key functions of your organization in the Consolidation department as part of the reorganization of an international group, a leader in the manufacture and construction of building materials.
- Management of a consolidation sub-tier within an audiovisual group
- Assistance to the consolidation department in the context of a reorganization / Carve out
- Comprehensive analysis of new financial transactions and their accounting treatment & assistance in producing IFRS reports
- Assistance with consolidation production, including IFRS 16 work
- Migration of consolidation entries from one database to another (analysis phase as part of history transfer)
Consolidation and IFRS expertise
Our support :
- Production of consolidated financial statements under IFRS
- Optimize closing times and improve consolidation processes
- Preparation of financial information
- Anticipating the accounting consequences of new transactions
- Accounting treatment of complex operations
- Defining and helping to change the format of group reporting
- Training on different accounting standards
Examples of assignments:
- Implementation of new financial reporting by country in compliance with IFRS 8 on operating segments for a major industrial group
- Replace key functions of your organization in the Consolidation department as part of the reorganization of an international group, a leader in the manufacture and construction of building materials.
- Management of a consolidation sub-tier within an audiovisual group
- Assistance to the consolidation department in the context of a reorganization / Carve out
- Comprehensive analysis of new financial transactions and their accounting treatment & assistance in producing IFRS reports
- Assistance with consolidation production, including IFRS 16 work
- Migration of consolidation entries from one database to another (analysis phase as part of history transfer)
Consolidation and IFRS expertise
Our support :
- Production of consolidated financial statements under IFRS
- Optimize closing times and improve consolidation processes
- Preparation of financial information
- Anticipating the accounting consequences of new transactions
- Accounting treatment of complex operations
- Defining and helping to change the format of group reporting
- Training on different accounting standards
Examples of assignments:
- Implementation of new financial reporting by country in compliance with IFRS 8 on operating segments for a major industrial group
- Replace key functions of your organization in the Consolidation department as part of the reorganization of an international group, a leader in the manufacture and construction of building materials.
- Management of a consolidation sub-tier within an audiovisual group
- Assistance to the consolidation department in the context of a reorganization / Carve out
- Comprehensive analysis of new financial transactions and their accounting treatment & assistance in producing IFRS reports
- Assistance with consolidation production, including IFRS 16 work
- Migration of consolidation entries from one database to another (analysis phase as part of history transfer)
Consolidation and IFRS expertise
Our support :
- Production of consolidated financial statements under IFRS
- Optimize closing times and improve consolidation processes
- Preparation of financial information
- Anticipating the accounting consequences of new transactions
- Accounting treatment of complex operations
- Defining and helping to change the format of group reporting
- Training on different accounting standards
Examples of assignments:
- Implementation of new financial reporting by country in compliance with IFRS 8 on operating segments for a major industrial group
- Replace key functions of your organization in the Consolidation department as part of the reorganization of an international group, a leader in the manufacture and construction of building materials.
- Management of a consolidation sub-tier within an audiovisual group
- Assistance to the consolidation department in the context of a reorganization / Carve out
- Comprehensive analysis of new financial transactions and their accounting treatment & assistance in producing IFRS reports
- Assistance with consolidation production, including IFRS 16 work
- Migration of consolidation entries from one database to another (analysis phase as part of history transfer)
Consolidation and IFRS expertise
Our support :
- Production of consolidated financial statements under IFRS
- Optimize closing times and improve consolidation processes
- Preparation of financial information
- Anticipating the accounting consequences of new transactions
- Accounting treatment of complex operations
- Defining and helping to change the format of group reporting
- Training on different accounting standards
Examples of assignments:
- Implementation of new financial reporting by country in compliance with IFRS 8 on operating segments for a major industrial group
- Replace key functions of your organization in the Consolidation department as part of the reorganization of an international group, a leader in the manufacture and construction of building materials.
- Management of a consolidation sub-tier within an audiovisual group
- Assistance to the consolidation department in the context of a reorganization / Carve out
- Comprehensive analysis of new financial transactions and their accounting treatment & assistance in producing IFRS reports
- Assistance with consolidation production, including IFRS 16 work
- Migration of consolidation entries from one database to another (analysis phase as part of history transfer)
Consolidation and IFRS expertise
Our support :
- Production of consolidated financial statements under IFRS
- Optimize closing times and improve consolidation processes
- Preparation of financial information
- First-time adoption of IFRS
- Anticipating the accounting consequences of new transactions
- Accounting treatment of complex operations
- Defining and helping to change the format of group reporting
- Training on the various accounting standards
Examples of assignments:
- Implementation of new financial reporting by country in compliance with IFRS 8 on operating segments for a major industrial group
- Assistance to the consolidation department in the reorganization of an international group, leader in the manufacture and construction of building materials
- Management of a consolidation sub-tier within an audiovisual group
- Assistance to the consolidation department in the context of a reorganization / Carve out
- Comprehensive analysis of new financial transactions and their accounting treatment & assistance in producing IFRS reports
- Assistance with consolidation production, including IFRS 16 work
- Migration of consolidation entries from one database to another (analysis phase as part of history transfer)
Controlling and budgeting
Our support :
- Support for management and financial control teams
- Production of reporting and participation in budget phases
- Defining and helping to change the format of group reporting
- Setting up performance indicators
Examples of assignments:
- Helped set up a management control department as part of the reorganization of the largest BU in a CAC 40 listed group.
- Support for a BU's Cost Controlling department in implementing a BI solution enabling it to manage OPEX and report to the BU's top management.
- Reliable reporting and reference systems
- Assisting Management Control with reporting and cost monitoring
- Implementation of bank budget (as part of orderly resolution)
- Assistance to Management Control within the Compliance department
Accounting Department and Shared Services Center
Our support :
- Support for accounting and CSP teams: manage bookkeeping tasks, coordinate and close accounts
- Support for customer and supplier accounting departments
- Technical notes
- Supporting foreign companies
Examples of assignments:
- Outsourcing accounting and payroll functions
- Assistance with the production of corporate financial statements
- Fast close process improvement for a business and public services group
- Assisting the Back Office of an automotive equipment manufacturer with its monthly, quarterly and half-yearly closing operations, culminating in the preparation of the IFRS consolidation package for the internal bank in a new reporting tool.
- Assistance in resolving outstanding claims (review of all insurer and counter-insurer third-party accounts)
- Management of a bank integration accounting project
Audit and internal control
Our support :
- Assistance with internal audit assignments
- Outsourcing the internal audit function
- Independent review of internal control of financial functions: Customer/Purchasing/HR/Accounting/Treasury/Payment
- Risk mapping
- Fraud risk audit
- Definition, drafting and assessment of procedures in accordance with COSO and Sarbanes-Oxley standards
- Definition and implementation of self-assessment test systems
- Definition, redesign and implementation of reporting frameworks, key indicators and risk monitoring
Examples of assignments:
- Strengthening internal control teams
- SOX testing support
- Formalizing accounting procedures
- Production of a group procedures manual and implementation of an internal control system
- Assistance with second-level controls on accounting processes
- Preparation and coordination of Internal Control reports for the Accounting Department
Treasury and financial risk management
Our expert treasury consultants are fully conversant with market solutions (Kyriba, Diapason, FIS, Finastra, etc.), Front to Back operational processes, cash management issues, banking communication and risk management.
Our support :
- Support for Back and Middle Offices and Cash Management teams
- Accounting for financial instruments in accordance with ANC 2015 and IFRS 9
- Financial risk management Foreign exchange, Interest rates, Commodities, Energy
- Project management and administration of cash management solutions
Examples of assignments:
- Reorganization of back offices
- Creation of a Middle Office within a group treasury department
- Operational support
- Definition of the group treasury core model
- Recipe for accounting schemes for financial instruments
- Implementation of full IFRS accounting for financial instruments as part of the migration to a new group cash management tool.
- Diagnosis of currency hedging strategy
- Framework and implementation of a new group's treasury IS (following a carve-out)
- Project management and TMS admin
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